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<h2>Bids Received By U.S. Firms </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>a cross-section
</p>
<p><em>number of observations</em> :  126
</p>
<p><em>observation</em> :  production units
</p>
<p><em>country</em> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Bids)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>docno</dt><dd><p> doc no.</p>
</dd>
<dt>weeks</dt><dd><p>weeks</p>
</dd>
<dt>numbids</dt><dd><p> count </p>
</dd>
<dt>takeover</dt><dd><p> delta (1 if taken over)</p>
</dd>
<dt>bidprem</dt><dd><p> bid Premium</p>
</dd>
<dt>insthold</dt><dd><p> institutional holdings</p>
</dd>
<dt>size</dt><dd><p> size measured in billions</p>
</dd>
<dt>leglrest</dt><dd><p>  legal restructuring</p>
</dd>
<dt>rearest</dt><dd><p>real restructuring</p>
</dd>
<dt>finrest</dt><dd><p>  financial restructuring</p>
</dd>
<dt>regulatn</dt><dd><p>regulation</p>
</dd>
<dt>whtknght</dt><dd><p>white knight</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Jaggia, Sanjiv  and  Satish  Thosar (1993) &ldquo;Multiple Bids as a Consequence of Target Management Resistance&rdquo;, <em>Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting</em>, 447&ndash;457.
</p>
<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  Per  Johansson (1997) &ldquo;Count Data Regression Models using Series Expansions: with Applications&rdquo;, <em>Journal of Applied Econometrics</em>, <b>12</b>, may, 203&ndash;223.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Cameron, A.C.  and   Trivedi P.K. (1998) <em>Regression analysis of count data</em>, Cambridge University Press, <a href="http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html">http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html</a>, chapter 5.
</p>
<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/">http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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